Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Man always gets less than he demands from life.

I've never really been wanted.

Always a godfather, never a god.

For years I begged you/ to just take me in your arms/ you wouldn't. Couldn't.

A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow beside my face and to see your eyes open in the morning when I lie next to you — just watching you, waiting for you to wake up.

As I saw it,
all my mother's life, my father
held her down, like
lead strapped to her ankles.

She was
buoyant by nature;
she wanted to travel,
go to the theater, go to museums.
What he wanted
was to lie on the couch
with the Times
over his face,
so that death, when it came,
wouldn't seem a significant change.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

Man is his desire.

No man really wants his freedom. He gets a habit as quickly as possible - its a form of immortality.

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

Even though you want to try to, never grow up